This is an analysis of the poem ‘march Days Return With Their Covert Light’ that begins with:

March days return with their covert light,
and huge fish swim through the sky,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXcddXXXXbcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 110101101 1111101 1101011010 11010111 110010100101 11010100101010 110001010 0011110001 1111111111 101110010011 010010100101 110110101001 0101011110 101100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 609
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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